Job Title: Creative Lead
Location/Type Remote / Semi-Remote
Level/Salary Range: Dependant on experience
Position Type: Freelance / part-time (20 hours a week)
Reports to: Business Director
Commencement: February 2021, ASAP
Vacancy Status: Accepting Applicants

The Role

Established in 2006 Heaven Media are the leading marketing agency within the gaming and esports industry. Our team consists of experienced and talented individuals with a passion for gaming and an obsession for customer satisfaction. We take pride in the high-quality services we provide to our clients across our core services which include public relations, influencer marketing, social media, content creation, videography, esports sponsorships, events and advertising.

Heaven Media requires a highly motivated, creative thinker with demonstratable experience in leading major creative projects from conception through to fulfilment. You’re a strong conceptual thinker, with bags of experience working in a creative role within an agency. You have experience of working to a brief, understanding different audiences needs and applying this knowledge to creative solutions.

You’ll deliver highly creative work, backed up with strong strategic thinking, and present it clearly and convincingly to multiple stakeholders both internally and to clients. Working closely with the cross-agency teams, you’ll be expected to develop creative campaigns which appeal to our clients audiences, are engaging and meet brand guidelines. You’ll lead other members of the team on these projects, helping them to develop their creativity, presentation and communication styles and ensuring that high creative standards are maintained.

Main Responsibilities:

• Creating world class ideas for our clients and seamlessly bring them to life by building the right teams and working with internal departments.
• Work with the senior leadership team to identify key strategic opportunities.
• Lead the development of exciting creative campaigns and be part of the proposal development and pitch process which will attract new business.
• Assessing, dissecting and understanding new client briefs and then have ability to bring these to life.
• Providing thorough research for the ideation process. You not only have great ideas, you understand how to bring these to life and are able to articulate this in PowerPoint or Word.
• Presenting key client pitches in collaboration with the Business Development Team.
• Working with the Account Managers and Business Development teams to shortlist potential partners for collaboration.
• Play a fundamental role in managing each creative project from conception through to completion to ensure vision and goals are achieved.
• Directing internal departments to ensure their work meets the creative objectives.
• Collaborate with the Head of Client Services to understand areas of expertise, current schedules, and budgets/resources.
• Mentor and motivate the client facing teams to be more creative thinkers and doers. Leading creative sessions and meetings with the client facing teams.
• Attend key industry events and complete necessary competitor research to identify key trends and develop creative ideas, as soon as it is Covid-safe to do so.
• Prepare campaign summaries which detail successes and learnings which can be built upon for future creative campaigns.

Essential Skills & Experience Required:

• An energetic, creative and entrepreneurial character with at least 4 years’ experience working within a fast-paced creative, marketing agency environment.
• Experience in aspects of marketing disciplines including (but not limited to) public relations, influencers, social media, content creation, events, and advertising.
• Awareness of opportunities and developments around the industry and the ability to share knowledge accordingly.
• A strategic problem solver who can conjure up exciting ideas on the spot.
• Excellent commercial acumen with as focus on growing the business and profitability.
• Confident directing creative projects and taking ideas all the way through to post-production and launch.
• Ability to communicate at all levels and articulate creative ideas in a way which inspires and motivates others and gets clients to buy our services.
• High quality standards and customer focus.
• Ability to work autonomously, under pressure, and meet deadlines.
• Fluent in English both written & verbal. Fluency in an additional language is a massive plus.

Desirable Skills & Experience Required:

• A bachelor’s degree, or similar professional qualification
• Agency and/or in-house marketing background. You should be able to demonstrate that you’ve performed this role in similar positions in the past.
• An existing understanding of new and innovative ways of engaging with consumers within the gaming and esports industry.
• Experience of creating and presenting proposals to PC hardware manufacturers, gaming and esports companies.

Other Requirements:

• Adventurous and pioneering.
• Challenge the norm and seek the bigger picture.
• Ability to inspire and motivate others to deliver.
• Confident, great communicator and collaborative.
• Attention to detail.